Oudenodon
| Oudenodon Temporal range: Late Permian | |
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| O. baini skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Anomodontia |
| Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
| Family: | †Oudenodontidae |
| Genus: | †Oudenodon Owen, 1860 |
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Oudenodon is an extinct genus of dicynodont. It was common throughout southern Africa during the Late Permian. Several species of Oudenodon are known.[2] Both O. bainii, the type species, and O. grandis are known from South Africa (Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone and Endothiodon Assemblage Zone).[3][4] Specimens of O. luangwensis have been found from Zambia.[5] One species, O. sakamenensis from the Lower Sakamena Formation is the only Permian therapsid yet described from Madagascar.[6] It is the type genus of the family Oudenodontidae, which includes members such as Tropidostoma.
Palaeobiology
Metabolism
Oudenodon is concluded on the basis of its δ18Op values to have been an ectothermic animal.[7]
See also
References
- ↑ Boonstra, L. D. (1938). A report of some Karoo reptiles from the Luangwa Valley, Northern Rhodesia. Quaternary Journal of the Geological Society of London 94:371-384.
- ↑ King, G. (1988). Anomodontia. Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 17C:1-174.
- ↑ Owen, R. (1860). On some reptilian fossils from South Africa. Quaternary Journal of the Geological Assotiation of South Africa 67:1-110.
- ↑ Haughton, S. H. (1917). Investigations in South African fossil reptiles and Amphibia. Part 10. Descriptive catalogue of the Dicynodontia. Annals of the South African Museum 12:127-174.
- ↑ Keyser, A. W. (1975). A re-evaluation of the cranial morphology and systematics of some tuskless Anomodontia. Memoir of the Geological Society of South Africa 67:1-110.
- ↑ Mazin, J. M. and King, G. M. (1991). The first dicynodont from the Late Permian of Malagasy. Palaeontology 34:837–842.
- ↑ Rey, Kévin; Amiot, Romain; Fourel, François; Abdala, Fernando; Fluteau, Frédéric; Jalil, Nour-Eddine; Liu, Jun; Rubidge, Bruce S.; Smith, Roger M. H.; Steyer, J. Sébastien; Viglietti, Pia A.; Wang, Xu; Lécuyer, Christophe (18 July 2017). "Oxygen isotopes suggest elevated thermometabolism within multiple Permo-Triassic therapsid clades". eLife. 6 e28589. doi:10.7554/eLife.28589. ISSN 2050-084X. PMC 5515572. PMID 28716184.
External links
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- Oudenodon in the Paleobiology Database






